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...Kirk flew from Tallahassee to Bradenton, where he and a handful of aides set themselves up in the two-story brick school headquarters as Manatee's new board of education -not just for the day, but for "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
...Governor failed to show up in court to answer possible contempt charges, Federal Judge Ben Krentzman fired Superintendent Kirk, reinstalled the local school board and reaffirmed his busing order. Kirk thereupon fired the local school board all over again, and sent a team of aides to take over the Bradenton school headquarters. The U.S. Attorney in Tampa responded by dispatching an assistant and three federal marshals to Bradenton. When they reached the school headquarters, they were met by a local sheriff and six deputies. After several tense moments of badge-to-badge confrontation, Kirk's aides locked themselves...
Outraged that anyone would dare arrest his minions, Kirk decided to return to Bradenton-but not before giving an impromptu press conference in a corridor of the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, where his German-born second wife Erika was giving birth to a son, their second child. Defending his stand, Kirk demanded "my day in court"-but not just any court. "I want to be in the Supreme Court on Friday or Saturday or Monday to get law on the subject of busing," he said. Alluding to President Nixon's recent speech recommending local options in carrying out desegregation (TIME...
...harangue ended, King Claude flew back to Bradenton, where he arrived at the administration building at 4:30 p.m. in the triumphant company of 70 Florida lawmen. He repeated his demand for a Supreme Court hearing, warning this time that the situation threatened "grave danger of loss of life." Later, marshals were allowed to enter the building to serve subpoenas on nine of his men. A few hours after that performance, Kirk, his aides, his troopers and his plainclothesmen all deserted the place and there was little likelihood that they would be coming back. Fed up with the Governor...
...Deacon" won pennants over a 27-year career for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1925), the St. Louis Cardinals (1928) and the Cincinnati Reds (1939 and 1940) and a niche in the Hall of Fame as the only man to take three teams to the top; of pneumonia; in Bradenton...